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Credit: AsusFor the third time this year, security researchers have revealed yet another Asus security issue. This time, the company's WebStorage customers are affected. Asus WebStorage Hacked Researchers from antivirus company ESET discovered that the Plead malware was being created and executed by what was supposed to be a legitimate process: Asus’s WebStorage program … [Read more...] about Strike Three: Asus Suffers Third Security Incident This Year

It happened again. Google announced today that it's the latest tech giant to have accidentally stored user passwords unprotected in plaintext. GSuite users, pay attention. Google says that the bug affected "a small percentage of GSuite users," meaning it does not impact individual consumer accounts, but does affect some business and corporate accounts, which have their own … [Read more...] about Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005

Every time you turn around there’s a new VPN service wanting to protect your web browsing. A recent newcomer is Surfshark, which debuted in 2018. Based in the British Virgin Islands, with most of its team scattered around Europe and elsewhere, Surfshark is already offering a fair amount for its fee.The company has more than 500 servers in 49 country locations. It promises … [Read more...] about Surfshark review: A solid VPN newcomer with some nice features

In the three years since Russian operatives breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee and threw presidential politics into a state of perpetual chaos, countries around the world have been on notice to the threat of foreign interference in elections. But as the US prepares for another presidential election next year, and the European Union holds its parliamentary … [Read more...] about Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems

A decade ago, Amazon abruptly deleted copies of George Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of its American customers. The move instantly evoked the “memory holes” in the novel's totalitarian dystopia, and it inspired about equal measures of shock, outrage, and jokes. (If a fictional Amazon in a dystopian novel had performed the same mass deletion, critics would have said … [Read more...] about We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices